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<p>
	Current countdowns:
</p>
<ul>
	<li>20 unfinished weblog entries in <a href="/en/weblog/2016/07-July/">July</a></li>
	<li>25 days until mobile service ends and I renew on a tablet plan</li>
	<li>23 days until my old domain registrar can no longer counter my charge dispute</li>
</ul>
<p>
	I received an email addressed to my old recovered email account that told me the third and final domain that I&apos;m being charged for on my old account with my previous domain registrar.
	It&apos;s one that I used for a domain hack email address! It was supposed to look professional, and I suppose that it does, but it&apos;s not a domain that I&apos;d ever have remembered registering; that&apos;s why I could never guess it.
</p>
<p>
	I went to the local T-Mobile store to verify that they couldn&apos;t offer me a prepaid tablet plan on my &quot;smartphone&quot; device.
	Last time, the representative that I talked to tried to set the plan up for me, but couldn&apos;t find prepaid tablet plans anywhere in the system.
	It seemed that the only prepaid plans that could be set up at that location were &quot;smartphone&quot; plans.
	To be clear, this was regardless of what device I brought, and had nothing to do with the classification of my device.
	The representative that I spoke to today kept pushing for me to switch to postpaid, saying that they couldn&apos;t add tablet plans to the account unless it was a postpaid account.
	That seemed to mean that the system was the same as before, so I continued on to somewhere that I knew sells prepaid T-Mobile tablet $a[SIM] cards.
	It turns out that they have two types of T-Mobile $a[SIM] cards there.
	One type is exclusively for &quot;smartphone&quot; plans while the other can be used for either &quot;smartphone&quot; plans or tablet plans.
	They have no tablet-only $a[SIM] cards, so it&apos;s odd that they have &quot;smartphone&quot;-only $a[SIM] cards.
	Unfortunately, the $a[SIM] card seems to be detecting that I&apos;m on a &quot;smartphone&quot;, and is refusing to activate using a tablet plan.
	I tried borrowing a tablet from a friend though, and the $a[SIM] card isn&apos;t accepting the tablet as a tablet either.
	Maybe the detection isn&apos;t what I think that it is.
	Additionally, T-Mobile&apos;s <a href="http://www.t-mobile.com/verifyIMEI.aspx">$a[IMEI] verification page</a> doesn&apos;t seem to recognize the $a[IMEI] of the tablet or any of my&quot;smartphone&quot; devices.
</p>
<p>
	I spoke with a support representative about it, and they kept insisting that tablet activation must be accomplished via a telephone call, which directly contradicts the instructions that came with the $a[SIM] card.
	I kept explaining that, but they wouldn&apos;t listen, continuing to insist that the only way to activate it was via telephone.
	Obviously, that isn&apos;t an option, and I eventually gave up, ended the live Web support chat, and started a new one with a new representative.
	This representative said that I could activate it through another webpage that they gave me a link to, but that page kept insisting that my email address and password combination were incorrect.
	I verified that they weren&apos;t by logging into another part of the website, and additionally be making sure that a different error message was present if I tried to use an unrecognized email address.
	I can&apos;t seem to get this $a[SIM] card to activate on a tablet plan, but it still does seem to accept &quot;smartphone&quot; plans.
	The worst-case scenario seems to be that I let my current service plan end, then activate the new $a[SIM] card on the same plan to make use of the account funds that came with it.
</p>
<p>
	My reading assignment for today wasn&apos;t too long:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://collegeofsanmateo.edu/bsi/docs/successfulstudents.pdf">Microsoft Word - CHOICES OF SUCCESSFUL STUDENTS _2_.docx - successfulstudents.pdf</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mmrg.pbworks.com./f/Ryan,+Deci+00.pdf">Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions - Ryan,+Deci+00.pdf</a></li>
<li><a href="http://missiontolearn.com./lifelong-learning-power-tips/">5 Lifelong Learning Power Tips for the Serious Learner</a></li>
<li><a href="http://missiontolearn.com./self-directed-learning-success/">Self Directed Learning: 15 Ways of the Successful Self-Directed Learner</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.studygs.net/activelearn.htm">Attention Required! | CloudFlare</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
	After reading all of that, I wrote up most of my essay for the week, but I will need to sleep on the last paragraph and a half.
	The assignment says to include a word count, but doesn&apos;t tell what the minimum word count is.
	I should be above it though already with just what I&apos;ve written today, before adding the final paragraph and a half.
	I&apos;ll be at over a thousand words by the time I&apos;m through, and no assignment in this course has required that many words yet, but it would be nice to be sure that I&apos;ve written enough.
</p>
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